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Re: Upcoming Marvel Figures (Large List)

I'm not sure what to make of those pics. They look very classic-comic style, not very much like the film version from what I've seen. Interesting..

I finally scored some decent ML figs the other day:

Picked up Iceman, Man-Thing, and Doc Ock at Wal-Mart. Then found Storm (regular ver) at K-Mart. I had gotten there just a moment too late at Wal-Mart, another person was walking away with Black Widow. Rats!!

And I just bought a Sandman figure off ebay for $9. Not too bad if you ask me!

Since I've been home sick all day and I'm bored, here's a few pics of my goodies.

Re: Upcoming Marvel Figures (Large List)

Yup, that's the ML Man-Thing. The figure really looks great in person.

It's a super figure. I'm so frigging happy that I ended up finding one and didn't have to cough up $25 or whatever to get one at my local comicbook shop.

It's a perfect example of why this toy line is so fun to me.

When I was a kid, back in the late '70s - early '80s, we used to sit around and talk about how cool it would be to have toys like this -- not that we could have ever imagined them like this. We'd talk about how crazy it would be to have toys or even **gasp** a movie made about the X-Men.

Now, to get stuff like this, and to have characters that are as relatively obscure as Man-Thing or Dr. Strange, really blows me away.

Re: Upcoming Marvel Figures (Large List)

If anybody's a really big fan of McFarlane or Todd's Spider-Man design, Toy Biz recently released in the Sandman assortment a really great McF style spidey. It's even got individual finger articulation!

It comes with a huge base like Manga Spider-Man and Wall Crawl Gollum which is pretty nice. If anybody is going to look for it, the full name is "Super Poseable Spider-Man with Wall Crawl Action" and he's got three grey missiles (don't worry, they fire off the base) and a Kennedy half dollar-sized Spidey logo next to him in the package.

"Hokey packaging and ancient gimmicks are no match for good detail on your figure, kid.""I am a Klingot from Oklahoma in human boy form.""We came, we saw, we conquered... We, woke up!"

Re: Upcoming Marvel Figures (Large List)

The return of a 4" line of Superhero Figures. Mini Marvel Legends!!

Marvel Legend Style 4" Figures For 2005

by Jay at 08:22:03 PM on 01/27/2005

I have been sitting on this news for a while now but since it's apprently leaked from the UK Toy Fair I feel I can go on and spill the beans. Toy Biz is launching a new line of 4" Marvel Legend type figures. The same scuplts as ML but scaled down to the size of 4". They are called being called Marvel Super Hero Showdown.

I am told these will have every bit the articulation and detail as the 6" versions. They were described to be as if Dr. Pym sprinkled his Pym Particles on the 6" Marvel legends to shrink them down to 4". Whether the final versions really are that exact remains to be seen. The case breakdowns are from the Canadian Distributor Grand, so they could be different for the U.S. And of course line-ups are subject to change.

Re: Upcoming Marvel Figures (Large List)

Here's something fun for you guys. A look at the unproduced Professor Xavier figure with hoverchair. Originally the Professor Xavier figure that's coming in ML9 was supposed to come with his infamous gold Shiar hoverchair. While it was sculpted and planned, it was dropped at the last minute for the 'movie' chair. This was done because the hoverchair wouldn't fit on the card with the Galactus Head. Hopefully a future Boxset will include the Xavier with hover chair. But here's a cool look at what might have been.

Frankly I think I prefer hoverchair version of the figure. The headsculpt is better (less femme), and I even like the suit and tie color better. Hopefully he does get released at some point. Because this is a really good variant that should see the light of day. But not in so limited numbers that noone can get one.